oscillating

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Most of the train horns work similarly which basically the horn is oscillating, and create sound wave.

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  • He named the oscillating frequency of the instrument Anita was using. —  Astounding Stories, February 1932
  • It involves some kind of oscillating magnetic field effect, and that would shake all our instrumentation into junk in jig time. —  Analog October 1971
  • (Prior to getting this model, I tried another non-oscillating heater that was no where near as effective as this one.) —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • While as a verb, it leaps from the sturdiness of its noun-definition into movement, back and forth, oscillating, going from yin to yang and back again, rocking. —  Temple3
  • Admittedly, it makes for a curious sight, a 30-something woman jogging around, her expression oscillating floridly between classic mild runner's resignation and apparent sudden astonishment at dustbins and squirrels and other wholly unastonishing things. —  problemchildbride.com Blog
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